Written by guest contributor Megan Ray Nichols, a freelance stem writer and the editor of Schooled By Science. For more from Megan, you can follow her on Twitter or subscribe to her blog here. The food ecosystem has remained stagnant for years, decades even, but that’s changing — and more rapidly...

For our latest interview, we spoke with Kiruba Sankar. Kiruba is Director of Corporate Social Responsibility for Global Procurement at the Royal Bank of Canada and recognized as a thought leader in his field. Kiruba’s efforts to help lead the Procurement field towards a more diverse supplier base...

This guest post comes from Fronetics, a boutique marketing firm focused on the Supply Chain and Logistics industries. Written by Elizabeth Hines. Logistics and supply chain careers are increasingly high paying, diverse, and in demand. With the talent gap growing wider every day, ambitious current and future supply chain professionals have many interesting...

As part of our efforts to chronicle emerging technologies’ impact on both employment and our hiring specialty – Supply Chain Management and Procurement – we’ve written about Blockchain a few times. It’s a technology that’s still difficult for the lay person to understand, but Blockchain is popping up...

Written by Chelsea Damon. This guest post comes from Scouted.io, an algorithm-based job matching platform based in New York City. Every workplace has busy and slow seasons. Depending on where you work, you might even have to wear multiple hats. To-do lists pile up, email inboxes can get flooded, and,...

Most of us at Argentus have been recruiting for at least a decade, so we’ve seen it all in terms of things people have done (and not done) in job interviews. We’ve seen mundane, yet deadly faux pas, like the candidate who told us they were happy with...

T here’s another unfortunate entry in the annals of Supply Chain failures that burst into the wider world of business and pop culture: More than half of the UK’s Kentucky Fried Chicken stores recently closed because they ran out of chicken. We’ve written on the Argentus’ blog many...

Everyone knows that a bad hire can be really costly to a business. When you account for hiring, training, and onboarding costs, plus the opportunity cost of not hiring a successful employee – not to mention the impact on workplace culture – hiring the wrong person can set...